School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 306
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- Long ago there was named Jimín Sheáin Líath of Collenus and he had a brother and he was a fairy. He was very old looking. He had a very big head and he used eat the ashes. When the priest came to the house to have the stations, he saw the boy near the fire and he started talking to him. The priest said to Jimín's mother that he was a fairy. Then he said to the fairy if he would be in this house for three days more that he would put him sitting in a red shovel. He told him to get(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mary Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
